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Tips for scanning small spaces

Learn how to scan small spaces like bathrooms and closets

Written by Eric Fitz

Scanning technique for small bathrooms or walk-in closets

  1. Starting the scan from the outside the room i.e. just standing back a few feet from the open bathroom door.

  2. Then, scan the interior space while still mostly standing outside of the bathroom

  3. Try to give the camera a field of view of the space by "peeking" through the door

  4. Then go into the room and hold the iPad above your head and aim at the floor/wall intersection.

    1. Holding the iPad above your head and aiming diagonally downwards increases the distance to avoid the "stand back" warning

Load calculation considerations

Closets (non-walk-in) often are so small that they can be ignored and have almost no impact on load calcs. Sometimes you might come across a large walk-in closet but it is filled with junk, really dark or just to hard to access. If it has substantial floor area and exterior walls, you can make a small adjustment to your infiltration calcs to correct for that unscanned floor area.

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